Fineman’s quantum thermodynamic equations would have been impossible without it not to mention the Zulu contribution to small arms technology,Kikuyu advancements in post-colonial administration of Kenya,Bantu control of a new and improved Congo and the Xhosa running a once world power like South Africa.
But seriously,the roots of English composition,the supreme accomplishment of written language,from Islamic North Africa script is nothing to sneeze at.
But when those who invented the characters we so eloquently use and abuse can write nothing more profound than death to the infidel,I find it hard to be grateful.
Yes, but in most of Africa for hundred of years there was no written language. And the North Africa of the days of the Roman Empire was taken over by the Islamic sword as an existing situation in terms of its advanced civilization for the day. We are also constrained to point out that under the caliphates a very large number of the leading scholars were not themselves Muslim or were not orthodox Muslims. There was much more tolerance than we see today.